{"query": "Easton: Temple, the Second", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6195c419b71c", "title": "Easton: Temple, the Second", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements were almost immediately made to reorganize the long-desolated kingdom. The body of pilgrims, forming a"}, {"id": "card_n_9e88feeb505a", "title": "Easton: Temple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First used of the tabernacle, which is called “the temple of the Lord” (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ’s human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called “th"}, {"id": "card_n_77c98f1d85ab", "title": "Easton: Haggai, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of two brief, comprehensive chapters. The object of the prophet was generally to urge the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the temple. Chapter first comprehends the first address (2-1"}, {"id": "card_n_d958e17500f7", "title": "Easton: Jehiel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God’s living one. (1.) The father of Gibeon (1 Chr. 9:35). (2.) One of David’s guard (1 Chr. 11:44). (3.) One of the Levites “of the second degree,” appointed to conduct the music on the occasion of t"}, {"id": "card_n_ecd6fdc9a41f", "title": "Easton: Daniel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God is my judge, or judge of God. (1.) David’s second son, “born unto him in Hebron, of Abigail the Carmelitess” (1 Chr. 3:1). He is called also Chileab (2 Sam. 3:3). (2.) One of the four great prophe"}, {"id": "card_n_f34c80659ad8", "title": "Easton: Joppa", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Beauty, a town in the portion of Dan (Josh. 19:46; A.V., “Japho”), on a sandy promontory between Caesarea and Gaza, and at a distance of 30 miles north-west from Jerusalem. It is one of the oldest tow"}, {"id": "card_n_ebb9ee6aa3ee", "title": "Easton: Malachi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Messenger or angel, the last of the minor prophets, and the writer of the last book of the Old Testament canon (Mal. 4:4, 5, 6). Nothing is known of him beyond what is contained in his book of prophec"}, {"id": "card_n_5a0d951f0365", "title": "Easton: Ezra, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the"}, {"id": "card_n_4b4a9b9519b9", "title": "Easton: Temple, Solomon’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Before his death David had “with all his might” provided materials in great abundance for the building of the temple on the summit of Mount Moriah (1 Chr. 22:14; 29:4; 2 Chr. 3:1), on the east of the "}, {"id": "card_n_18d743c6e0d7", "title": "Easton: Cloud", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew so rendered means “a covering,” because clouds cover the sky. The word is used as a symbol of the Divine presence, as indicating the splendour of that glory which it conceals (Ex. 16:10; 33"}, {"id": "card_n_8b980dce7227", "title": "Easton: Cedar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. e’rez, Gr. kedros, Lat. cedrus), a tree very frequently mentioned in Scripture. It was stately (Ezek. 31:3-5), long-branched (Ps. 80:10; 92:12; Ezek. 31:6-9), odoriferous (Cant. 4:11; Hos. 14:6)"}, {"id": "card_n_d3346d27eaef", "title": "Easton: Zerubbabel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The seed of Babylon, the son of Salathiel or Shealtiel (Hag. 1:1; Zorobabel, Matt. 1:12); called also the son of Pedaiah (1 Chr. 3:17-19), i.e., according to a frequent usage of the word “son;” the gr"}, {"id": "card_harmony_h076", "title": "Second cleansing of the Temple; the fig tree cursed (3 of 4 gospels)", "shelf": "scripture", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Second cleansing of the Temple; the fig tree cursed — Passion Week. Recorded by 3 of the four gospels: Matthew 21:12-22; Mark 11:12-19; Luke 19:45-48. Read them side by side at /harmony.html; the text"}, {"id": "card_n_8098e379b0f0", "title": "Easton: Sanctuary", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Denotes, (1) the Holy Land (Ex. 15:17; comp. Ps. 114:2); (2) the temple (1 Chr. 22:19; 2 Chr. 29:21); (3) the tabernacle (Ex. 25:8; Lev. 12:4; 21:12); (4) the holy place, the place of the Presence (Gr"}, {"id": "card_n_e2da6efaf1f0", "title": "Easton: Dedication, Feast of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 10:22, 42), i.e., the feast of the renewing. It was instituted B.C. 164 to commemorate the purging of the temple after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes (B.C. 167), and the rebuilding of the "}, {"id": "card_src_word_temple_of_jerusalem", "title": "temple of jerusalem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "temple of jerusalem: (noun) any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solom"}, {"id": "card_src_word_temple_of_solomon", "title": "temple of solomon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "temple of solomon: (noun) any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon"}, {"id": "card_n_f77b44534ccf", "title": "Easton: Artaxerxes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek form of the name of several Persian kings. (1.) The king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:7). He was probably the Smerdis of profane history. (2.) The king mentioned in Ez"}, {"id": "card_n_3526c472f558", "title": "Easton: Temple, Herod’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The temple erected by the exiles on their return from Babylon had stood for about five hundred years, when Herod the Great became king of Judea. The building had suffered considerably from natural dec"}, {"id": "card_n_78597846927c", "title": "Easton: Shechinah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Chaldee word meaning resting-place, not found in Scripture, but used by the later Jews to designate the visible symbol of God’s presence in the tabernacle, and afterwards in Solomon’s temple. When t"}]}